Unfortunately, Russian scammers have become so active in the last few years that for many the words Russian dating and Russian girls are connected with Russian scamming.

Are all Russian women scammers?

Why do they exist?

The iron curtain was raised in the 90's and Russian girls become popular. They differed from Western and American women.

Some of these differences are just myths and some are quite real.

When Perestroyka had just begun, it seemed that to live in Russia was very dangerous and unstable. You never knew what would happen tomorrow.

People rushed to leave the country. You only have one life and nobody wants to live in poverty with an unstable future.

It was not easy to leave Russia. But it was easier for beautiful Russian girls. Russian women have always had the highest priority for family values, before even careers and work, they wanted to have a good quiet family life. In Russia women are used to taking good care of themselves - to be slim, wear nice clothes and make-up regularly, to be feminine and loyal.

Life in Europe and the USA seemed like a paradise- prosperous, happy, stable. Many beautiful girls looked for a husband abroad. Some were looking there for love, some were just looking for a way to escape Russia. The latter did not choose, they just agreed to marry almost any man who wanted to marry them. And people are different! They could marry a man 30-40 years older than them. And they just did not look at their future husband as a man with whom they were going to live. Several years later Russian television was full of moaning and complaints from these women. They blamed American and Western men, they warned other Russian girls not to marry them (interestingly, in spite of this most of them did not leave their new country and return to Russia to live).

But life in Russia has changed and is changing. There are many very expensive cars that you can see in the streets. There are many people that vacation in the resorts of Spain, Jamaica and other places. People in Russia can buy expensive clothes from famous designers.

If a girl wants to sell herself as expensively as possible and it does not matter to whom, she can do it easily in Russia. When I go by car in the streets of St-Petersburg and see an expensive and rare car, I can say almost for sure that it is driven by a beautiful blonde. These women can find rich boyfriends (usually not husbands) here, especially in the big cities, that give them cars, expensive clothes and holidays in expensive resorts.

Most girls that come to the agency are not looking for the richest buyer.They want to find love, and it does not matter for them where. They want to make their chances greater and so apply to international marriage agencies. If they find love in Russia, they will marry here, if they find love in the USA, then they will move to their husband.

For some girls it matters where they find a husband. They do not want a Russian husband- they think that Russian men make the worst fathers and are less loyal than those abroad. They have their right to look for husbands outside Russia.

As I say these girls do not look for a way out of Russia, they look for a partner for friendship, sex. support, mutual fidelity and they prefer men less than 10 years older than them (the usual age difference for partners in Russia).

But some men want to believe in fairy tales.They think that Russia is so big and are sure that there is a blond beauty who is looking for a man just like them. And some marriage agencies with Russian girls and scammers use this myth to make a profit. Marriage agencies write on their pages that the big age difference is welcomed by Russian women. Some even omit this information in the girls' questionnaires.

We have sites with Russian dating and a dating site for disabled people. On the first type of site Russian scammers register in big numbers and on the sites for the disabled, Nigerian scammers- men and women register in big numbers. Obviously we do not activate their profiles, we have our methods for recognizing them. Interestingly, they have one trait in common. Women usually are 23-30 yrs, young, beautiful, wishing to find a partner up to 60 (65). They write eloquently that they are looking just for love, honesty and faithfulness and nothing else matters. And men are caught! (Fortunately, only till the time when she asks him for money to come to him, or for money to help her to get out of her problems).

Many men imagine that real Russian girls are doing this, they do not think about their future, but maybe they should and will change in the future.

But this isn't the case. Very often it is companies, with a staff of employees (and salaries there are rather big, especially in places far from Moscow and St-Petersburg. It is shift work, where some people write letters, others talk on the phone and if needed, others take money by Western Union.

They prefer sites like match, yahoo and american singles where they can pay by fraudulent credit card, send as many letters as possible with their emails before they are blocked and work on the men who answered them unhurriedly. Men on these sites know less about Russian scammers, they are easier to work with. But of course, scammers also register to different Russian dating sites.

But they are not numerous, they just have many names, many faces, many emails and many different sets of pictures.

Russian girls work, scammers only work on the sites, they do not have any other work. Russian girls choose, they won't just accept any man, it does not matter for scammers, the age or the nationality of their supposed victim. Only one thing is important, whether they will be able to make him send them money. Russian women can post poor quality pictures, scammers put only the pictures that gather the largest number of men (pictures of beautiful Russian girls (singers, models and so on) or non professional photos of innocent blondes, the pictures becoming more and more sexy with time. Russian girls do not have a habit of falling in love on the second or third letter and talk about love and honesty all the time. Scammers do have this thing in common (it works best with men who are weak from loneliness).

Yes, there are fairy tales in life and you can fall in love with a Russian girl who will also fall in love with you. But do not fool yourself. Look for beauty in the face, in her eyes, see what she can be, do not go after only girls with models pictures. In life they can be the same as the girls with non professional photos, who look less glamorous on the site but who are more real and open to relationships.